Oil - Pipelines

13/05/18
Author: 
Kevin Taft
Photograph by Andrew S. Wright for National Observer of Alberta oilsands tailings ponds May 2014

A primary lesson in political communications is that there is room in the public mind for only one big political news story at a time, and whoever drives that one big story wins twice: their story sets the headlines, and stories they don’t like are pushed to the margins.

10/05/18
Author: 
Robyn Allan
A May 2013 handout photo of Kinder Morgan's Anchor Loop Project in Jasper, part of the Trans Mountain pipeline. SUNMEDIA

Trans Mountain’s expansion was never commercially viable. It has needed unprecedented support from the get-go when in 2011 the National Energy Board (NEB) approved a $286-million special fee fought by Canadian oil producers. Chevron described it at the time as an “extraordinary precedent … If they (Kinder Morgan) need financing, then they should go to the market” and get it. 

10/05/18
Author: 
Alastair Sharp
Chief Judy Wilson speaks to reporters about Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline expansion at the Hilton Lac-Leamy in Gatineau, Que. on May 2, 2018. Photo by Alex Tétreault

May 9th 2018

A Kinder Morgan shareholder vote for an annual environmental sustainability report indicates investor concern about the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion proposal, says an Indigenous leader who addressed the company's annual shareholder meeting in Houston on Wednesday.

Chief Judy Wilson was among a group of Canadian Indigenous leaders who reaffirmed their opposition to the Trans Mountain proposal at the meeting where shareholders passed two of three non-binding proposals calling for improved environmental reporting.

03/05/18
Author: 
Clark Williams-Derry

"Maybe this is what has really caused the cancellation of non-essential spending!"

03/05/18
Author: 
Clark Williams-Derry

Firm faces steep costs and “unlimited liability” for a Trans Mountain spill.

On April 8, Kinder Morgan Canada held an unusual Sunday conference call to announce an immediate halt to all non-essential spending on the controversial Trans Mountain pipeline, threatening to pull the plug on the project completely unless the escalating political conflicts over the pipeline could be resolved by May 31.

03/05/18
Author: 
Jeremy Allingham CBC

Editor: Listen here for a summing up of the situation with gas prices in BC in relation to the Trans Mountain Expansion (Kinder Morgan pipeline):

http://www.cbc.ca/listen/shows/the-early-edition/episode/15541907

pipeline facts

At the 01:41:11 point 

 

03/05/18
Author: 
CBC staff
Two women climbed a drill commissioned by Kinder Morgan for the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project on Thursday. The machine is currently at a holding facility in Delta, B.C. (Christer Waara/CBC)
 

Greenpeace Canada demonstrators scaled the equipment just before dawn

CBC News · 
 
At least two pipeline protesters have climbed on top of one of Kinder Morgan's drills in Delta, B.C.

The Greenpeace Canada activists scaled the equipment just before dawn, waving flags condemning the Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project.

02/05/18
Author: 
Emma Gilchrist
Justin Trudeau and Kinder Morgan

April 25, 2018 

Amongst all the hooting and hollering over the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline, it’s easy to lose track of how on earth we ended up in this place of dysfunction.

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